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1. |
Who Do You Love
04:15
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Who Do You Love
I walk forty-seven miles of barbed wire
I use a cobra snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
I got a brand new chimney made on top
Made out of a human skull
Now come on take a walk with me, Arlene
And tell me, who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Tombstone hand and a graveyard mind
Just twenty-two and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
I rode a lion to town, used a rattlesnake whip
Take it easy Arlene, don't give me no lip
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Night was dark, but the sky was blue
Down the alley, the ice-wagon flew
Heard a bump, and somebody screamed
You should have heard just what I seen
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Arlene took me by my hand
And she said ooo-wee, Bo, you know I understand
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Who do you love?
Songwriters
ELLAS MCDANIEL
Read more: Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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2. |
Impressionism
19:53
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Thirst
When I think of fates worse than death
All I can think of is something you said
You said we were golden, bright like the sun
And now I am stranded
Knowing I’m not the one
An ocean of anger
Flowing through me
Blood stained and broken
From when I fell to sea
And just like a snake charmer
You led me astray
Living in distress
Hoping help is on the way
In the midst of a storm
Searching for shelter
I came upon
One single feather
A half-hearted wish
For something better
Gracefully cursed, I thirst
Attached to the soil
I’m guiding the wool
As I am in my blood
Yet so venerable
But after I’m gone
Once I finally leave
You will be left alone
To the wolves and the thieves
In the midst of a storm
Searching for shelter
I came upon
One single feather
A half-hearted wish
For something better
Gracefully cursed, I thirst
Gracefully cursed, I thirst
Gracefully cursed, I thirst
I thirst
China Girl
I could escape this feeling, with my China girl
I feel a wreck without my, little China girl
I hear her heart beating, loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing
I'm a mess without my, little China girl
Wake up mornings where's my, little China girl
I hear her heart's beating, loud as thunder
Saw they stars crashing down
I feel a-tragic like I'm Marlon Brando
When I look at my China girl
I could pretend that nothing really meant too much
When I look at my China girl
I stumble into town just like a sacred cow
Visions of swastikas in my head
Plans for everyone
It's in the whites of my eyes
My little China girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
You know, I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you men's who want to rule the world
And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth
She says, sh-sh-shhh
She says, sh-sh-shhh
She says
She says
And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth
And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth
She says, sh-sh-shhh
She says
Oh, oh, oh, little China girl
Oh, oh, oh, little China girl
Oh, oh, oh, little China girl
Oh, oh, oh, little China girl
Fly Like an Eagle
"Fly Like An Eagle"
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Fly through the revolution
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Fly through the revolution
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution
Oh, oh, there's a solution
Oh, oh, there's a solution
Oh, oh, there's a solution
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3. |
The Cross
10:42
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The Cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos to the left of us
Flowers to the right
There'll be bread for all of us
If we can just bear the cross
Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings
We all have our problems
Some big, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry for he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos to the left of us
Flowers to the right
There'll be bread for all, y'all
If we can just, just bear the cross, yeah
We all have our problems
Some are big, some are small
Soon all of our problems, y'all
Will be taken by the cross
The cross
The cross
Written by Prince Rogers Nelson
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4. |
Isolation
04:23
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"Isolation"
People say we got it made.
Don't they know we're so afraid?
Isolation.
We're afraid to be alone,
everybody got to have a home.
Isolation.
Just a boy and a little girl,
trying to change the whole wide world.
Isolation.
The world is just a little town,
everybody trying to put us down.
Isolation.
I don't expect you to understand,
after you've caused so much pain.
But then again, you're not to blame.
You're just a human, a victim of the insane.
We're afraid of everyone,
Afraid of the sun.
Isolation
The sun will never disappear,
but the world may not have many years.
Isolation.
john lennon
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5. |
What About Me
05:31
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What About Me
You poisoned my sweet water.
You cut down my green trees.
The food you fed my children
Was the cause of their disease.
My world is slowly fallin' down
And the airs not good to breathe.
And those of us who care enough,
We have to do something...
[Chorus]
Oh... oh What you gonna do about me?
Oh... oh What you gonna do about me?
Your newspapers,
They just put you on.
They never tell you
The whole story.
They just put your
Young ideas down.
I was wonderin' could this be the end
Of your pride and glory?
[Chorus]
I work in your factory.
I study in your schools.
I fill your penitentiaries.
And your military too!
And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."
[Chorus]
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run...
An I'm always getting busted
And I got to take a stand...
I believe the revolution
Must be mighty close at hand...
[Chorus]
I smoke marijuana
But I can't get behind your wars.
And most of what I do believe
Is against most of your laws
I'm a fugitive from injustice
But I'm goin' to be free.
Cause your rules and regulations
They don't do the thing for me
[Chorus]
And I feel like a stranger
In the land where I was born
And I live just like an outlaw.
An' I'm always on the run.
Songwriters: JESSIE FARROW
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6. |
All Yer Lies
05:28
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all yer lies
right off the bat
i need to say to yu
that there are things
that i gotta talk through
before it
gets a whole lot worse
knowing that
i don't want the hurt
chorus
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the need
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the fucking need
to listen to
to listen to
to listen to
all of your lies
all of you lies
so how about
we take a moment
to turn things around
and hear what i got to say
because strange as it seems
i'm gettin' tired of yer stories
n' i'm over all the games
they've become so boring
chorus
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the need
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the fucking need
to listen to
to listen to
to listen to
all of your lies
all of you lies
middle 8
so now yer gonna have to listen to how i feel
i gues you'll think it all so surreal
but in a nutshell this is what it's been like
and finally i get to say what's goin' on
in my mind
in my mind
in my mind
chorus
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the need
no i don't want
no i don't care
no i don't feel the fucking need
to listen to
to listen to
to listen to
all of your lies
all of you lies
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7. |
When the Levee Breaks
04:48
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Levee Breaks
If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Lord mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well oh well oh well.
Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go'n' to Chicago,
Go'n' to Chicago,
Sorry but I can't take you.
Going down, going down now, going down
going down now, going down, going down, going down, going down
Going down, going down now, going down
going down now, going down
going down now, going down
Going d-d-d-d-down
Woo woo
Written by Joe Mccoy
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8. |
Heartbreaker
04:49
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Heartbreaker
The police in New York City
They chased a boy right through the park
And in a case of mistaken identity
The put a bullet through his heart
Heart breakers with your forty four
I want to tear your world apart
You heart breaker with your forty four
I want to tear your world a part
A ten year old girl on a street corner
Sticking needles in her arm
She died in the dirt of an alleyway
Her mother said she had no chance, no chance!
Heart breaker, heart breaker
She stuck the pins right in her heart
Heart breaker, pain maker
Stole the love right out of you heart
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Want to tear your world apart
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Want to tear your world apart
Heart breaker, heart breaker
You stole the love right out of my heart
Heart breaker, heart breaker
I want to tear that world
I want to tear that world
I want to tear that world apart
Heart breaker, heart breaker
Stone love, stone love
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Heartbreaker, heartbreaker
Want to tear that world apart
Doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo
Written by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
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9. |
Les Darcy
06:09
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Les Darcy
He was a blacksmith's striker
a stocky man not too tall
Was he our greatest ever fighter
or did he lose to shirk the war.
From the back blocks of Maitland
in the nature of those bare knuckle days
he became a majorl drawcard
a national figure fighting for pay.
but a nation at war
had no time for such a sport
with distressed mothers sobbing tears
for their sons
they cried
cowardice and rort
cowardice and rort
some say white feathers
forced Les Darcy out
sadly but a common stowaway
was the national champion of stoush
These were times of misfortune
men of scurrilous corruption and graft
Les Darcy a long way from Maitland
In America enacting a farce
Forced to fight in vaudeville
some say he was taken for a ride
and on a training run in Memphis
deeply ill he collapsed and then he died.
Steve BLaque
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10. |
Sex Bomb
04:16
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Sex Bomb
Spy on me baby use satellite
Infrared to see me move through the night
Aim gonna fire shoot me right
Aim gonna like the way you fight
And I love the way you fight
Now you found the secret code
I use to wash away my lonely blues well
So I can't deny or lie cause you're a
Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb uh, huh
You can give it to me when I need to come along give it to me
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on baby you can turn me on
You know what you're doing to me don't you. ha ha,
I know you do
No don't get me wrong ain't gonna do you no harm no
This bomb's made for lovin' and you can shoot it far
I'm your main target come and help me ignite ow
Love struck holding you tight hold me tight darlin'
Make me explode although you know the route to go to sex me slow slow baby
And yes
I must react to claims of those who say that you are not all that huh, huh,
Huh
Sexbomb sexbomb you're a sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on darlin'
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb your're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on
You can give me more and more counting up the score
Yeah
You can turn me upside down inside out
You can make me feel the real deal uh uh
I can give it to you any time because you're mine
Ouch, sexbomb, aw baby
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And you can give it to me when I need to be turned on
No, no
Sexbomb sexbomb you're my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on
And baby you can turn me on turn me on
Baby you can turn me on turn me on
Ooh baby you can turn me on turn me on
Baby you can turn me on oh
Baby you can turn me on oh
Baby you can turn me on
Well baby you can turn me on
Written by Narada Michael Walden, Lisa Walden, Allee Willis, Joni Sledge, Mustafa Gondogd
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11. |
Season's Change
03:20
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"Seasons (Waiting On You)" by The Future Islands
[Verse]
Am7 G
Seasons change, And I tried hard just to soften you
Am7 G
Seasons change, But I've grown tired of trying to change for you
Am7 G
Cause I've been waiting on you, I’ve been waiting on you
Am7 G
Cause I've been waiting on you, I’ve been waiting on you
[Chorus]
C Em Am
As it breaks, the summer will wake
G Am C
But the winter will wash what is left of the taste
Em Am
As it breaks, the summer will warm
G Am
But the winter will crave what is gone
G Am Am7
Will crave what has all... gone away
[Verse]
Am7 G
People change, You know but some people never do
Am7 G
You know when people change They gain a peace but they lose one too
Am7 G
Cause I've been hanging on you, I’ve been waiting on you
Am7 G
Cause I've been waiting on you, I’ve been hanging on you
[Chorus]
C Em Am
As it breaks, the summer will wake
G Am C
But the winter will wash what is left of the taste
Em Am
As it breaks, the summer will warm
G Am
But the winter will crave what is gone
G Am Am7
Will crave what has all... gone away
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12. |
Working Class Hero
06:25
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Lyrics
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
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Steve Blaque & The Raven Beijing, China
Steve Blaque singer, songwriter, Producer and engineer and owner of Darktrunk Recording (formerly Forbidden City Studio Beijing) also performs in an unplugged environment with his favorite flavors of Indie and Grunge. Blaque has always said ''you don't need distortion to be grunge and you don't need twang to be Indie''. ... more
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Great Record first up because I produced it at Forbidden City Studio and that The Radiance delivered some powerful performances in the booth and that supporting artists all gave their best shot.
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This double A single works because The Radiance once again develop interesting songs and are prepared to introduce new and old school into their recordings. It is rich in rhythmic elements and harmony
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crayons n' colors throw out a real cool sound.....recommend taking a listen.
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